Reading literary texts in their historical contexts has been the dominant form of interpretation in literary criticism for the past thirty years. This collectio

Reading literary texts in their historical contexts has been the dominant form of interpretation in literary criticism for the past thirty years. This collectio

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an

Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places a

Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England examines the emotional effect of stage performance on the minds of the early modern theatre audience.